‘The punk rock Len Lye’ - the legacy of confrontational artist Peter Roche

Dropping a sheep’s carcass from an aeroplane into the Waitemata harbour; sewing a sheep’s kidney onto your own back; yelling “get the f**k out” till the audience leaves, many razor cuts. The early, confrontational ‘70s performance work of the late Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland artist Peter Roche is the stuff of legend.   Yet, as Night Piece, a new documentary by filmmaker Bridget Sutherland shows, Peter Roche’s artistic career also had many different lives.